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WilsonWeb Art Suite in your library

As part of its commitment to providing the finest educational resources available, your library brings you WilsonWeb’s Art Suite, which includes art images and associated multimedia from distinguished museums around the world, and images and biographies from cinema and television.

Wilson Web Art Suite is a key resource for all art-related materials, making it ideal for

  • Illustrating papers, assignments, projects, and lectures

  • Finding biographical materials

  • Research in multicultural studies, geography, archaeology, classics, history, religion, cultural studies, literature, communications, and more

  • Inspiring ideas for theater, design, craft, or construction work either for school or in your free time

Content includes

  • Thousands of superior-quality images from art collections and movie and television archives, supported by written materials and licensed for educational use

  • Coverage of all areas of art—painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds—as well as film, architecture, folk art and more

  • Portrait photography and biographies of movie and television stars

  • Links to free, full online videos

  • Links to carefully chosen free sites

  • The full text of articles from almost 200 journals dating back to 1997

  • Citations to thousands of book reviews

The WilsonWeb Art Suite covers a whole world of art:

  • Painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds—as well as film, architecture, folk art and more

  • Classical to contemporary art, from 3000 B.C. to the present day, and from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples

  • International coverage—periodicals in French, Italian, German, Spanish,
    and Dutch are covered as well as those in English

Remember that WilsonWeb features allow you to

  • Find exactly what you’re looking for using intuitive, user-friendly search functions such as All-Smart Search, Content Discovery Keys, and a subject-specific thesaurus

  • Save searches and results in My WilsonWeb for later use

  • Translate articles

  • Use Readspeaker text-to-speech converter to listen to articles in the library or download them to a portable device for later use

  • Determine quickly if your library holds a particular book mentioned in your research

  • Access the database remotely using an Internet connection and your login

WilsonWeb Art Suite will show you

  • Patterns for needlework
  • Links between art and politics
  • Changes in the depiction of teenagers on film since the 1950s
  • Roman sculpting techniques
  • Native American carvings
  • Biographies of personalities such as John Hughes, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lauren Bacall, Henri Matisse, and thousands more
  • The evolution of the modern New York skyline
  • Pictures of traditional Masai jewelry
  • The Great Masters
  • Designs for ecological buildings and green cities

Together, the five databases of WilsonWeb’s Art Suite—Art Museum Image Gallery, Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and Cinema Image Gallery—provide a one-stop source for complete coverage of all areas of artistic endeavor.

 

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